I really couldn't find a lot of information on these coin out side of the Coin India website and a mention in Numismatic Evidence of the Alchon Huns Reconsidered by Klaus Vondrovec. Which by the way is fascinating in the extreme. Rather than have me butcher this very complex and intriguing new history I urge you to read the paper. Found here. https://www.academia.edu/880238/Numismatic_Evidence_of_the_Alchon_Huns_reconsidered The coin follows the standard Khingila Type. Gandhara, India AR Drachm (AD 440-490) 26 mm x 2.56 grams Obverse: Bust of Khingila right wearing domed tiara and double drop earrings, Brahmi Legend -Raja Lakhana Udayaditya. Reverse: [Zoroastrian fire alter flanked by two attendants] Ref: Gobl Dokumente Em.79 Note: Rare, very cool coin.
Congratulations on this one ! Very nice coin with a characteristic ugly conehead portrait, beautifull !
Fantastic, Anoob!! The portrait is wonderfully hideous-- such a pinheaded brute . I look at these in every auction and will someday add one.
Super addition, brother Noob ... hey, we both scored cool new coins from India (you are certainly building-up a monster Indian collection, eh?) => congrats
interesting coin indeed AN...that's awesome. so according to the article posted, these guys really were coneheads to some extent, resulting from "bandaging of infants heads". also, most of the coins of the type seems to have a very weak reverse. why so?
These might haave cheaped out on the coin production. There seems that there wasn't enough metal to completely fill in the reverse and all the metal got sucked up into khingila's cone head.
That's one butt ugly Woman, hate to be the guy who minted that, ''off with his head''...diffidently a keeper..
